The Washington critic., 1887-04-26
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

Easton, Is dead.
Herring are selling at Havre-de-G Grace at
So per thousand.
Coal shipments by the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal are looking up.
Philadelphia manufacturers have organ.
lied social and political club.
Samuel Forsythe OF IIavre-de-Grace, a
heavy operator iu timber, is dead.
The steamer Captain Miller, burned at
Centrcvilic Landing, will be rebuilt.
A new Lutheran theological seminary is
to be established at Germantown, Pa.
The Indicator Stock Exchange In New
York was raided by the police yesterday.
The shooting OF Mrs. Cump and her son
Carlisle, near Hpgerstown, is still shrou1ed
in mystery.
The Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company has been leased to the Union Pa
ciilc Railway.
Jacob F. WyekofT, New York broker,
made an assignment yesterday, with prefer
ences Of $4,000.
Elections held In four districts OF Rock
ingham County, yesterday, resulted in local
option victories.
The Assembly Committee investigating
the Brooklyn city government has con-
cluded It's labors.
IT Is said to be the opinion OF New York
UOIllCluuS tUhJ ITcslutnb ClcNSluuu Id
candidate for denomination.
The Bell Telephone Company yesterday
filed a demurrer to the Gover0ment's suit in
Boston to nullify Its patents.
1t is stated that the opposition OF the
Cotton Exchange to Henry Clews is not
The outgrowth OF sectional feeling.
Increased fares on the railroads have
caused a decline In the value OF suburban
property in the vicinity of Philadelphia.
George NJ. Thompson, grain dealer OF
San Francisco, has filed petition of iusol-
yency. His liabilities are 100000; assets,
$4,000.
Lizzie Brandt, the wife of Henry Brandt,
German bricklayer Of New York, is dying
from injuries received at the hands OF her
husband.
The much-talked-of stove patterns OF
Briegc, Beach & Co., OF st. Louis, have ar
strike will result.
Captain j. L. Strong, of the schooner
Carrie Strong, shot himself accidentally
while hunting at Beaufort, s. c., yesterday,
infictiDg a fatal wound.
Three young men named Charles Moreau,
August Rousseau and Joseph Huard, were
drowned at st. Romuild, Quebec, Sunday,
by the upsettipg OF boat.
The siversmiths employed at the Gorham
Manufacturing Company's Works, Provl-
dence, r. l., have voted to dlsband the local
assembly Of the Knights of Labor In that
city to which they belong.
In New York yesterday, john Murphy,
employed at the Eighteenth street station
OF the Sixth Avenue Elevated Railroad, was
struck by On engine and killed while at
tempting to cross the tracks.
James Nixon, an old hermit living near
Harmansyille, Pa, who had no faith in
banks, was robbed several days ago OF S.
500 In cash and Government securities,
which he had stc ct in his house.
Malcom W. Ford, the champion athlete,
was finally declared to be professional at
the meeting OF the executive committee
Of the National Association Of Amateur
Athletes Of America in New York last
night.
The Greenback labor party Of Allegheny
County, Pa, at large necnng last night
formally dissolved their organization and In
body entered the Commoners party, the
organization is built upon Htnry Georges
land theories.
A fire involving loss OF over Sl5O,010
occurred last night In the iive-story brick
store, 1903 Dearborn street, Chicago. The
building was occupied by Sbiedcwen1 &
Lee, stereptypers and wholesale dealers In
printers materials.
A missing draft for S15, 1000, drawn on the
New York National Banking Association
OF New York by the Bank of North Amer
lea OF Philadelphia In favor Of Dunn Bros
also Of Philadelphia, has been found in the
office Of Dunn Bros.
Albert Turner, the colored burglar, who
fatally assaulted the white domestic, Jennie
Bowman, in Louisville, Ky last Thursday
implicated another negro man named BIZ
Patterson, and both were taken to Frank
fort to save them from being lynched.
In the case Of Mrs. Esther Garlick, aged
10 years, whose body was found In tn
schuyliill River Friday night, the coroner'i
jury, In Philadelphia, yesterday rendered I
verdict OF "found drowned" John NJ
Henri, who was arrested, was discharge
Christopher Steele, q 'longshoreman, wa
stabbed and dangerously wounded in New
York yesterday by Thomas Culligan. Steel
refused to join in the 'longshoremen'
strike, and bad feeling had arisen betweel
him and Culligan, who was one OF th
strikers.
Mary Thompson and Daniel May, occu
pants Of apartments in Water street, New
York, quarreled last night. May is an in
valid, and when he saw Mrs. Thompson al
vancing toward him, as be supposed t
assault him, he pulled out revolver AM
fired five shots at her. All took effect.
The VII cling AMI Lake Erie Riicol,
hrs char ged ownership. II Is believed til
Garrison Interest, which Is large maiorlt
OF the stock, has passed into Sidney Dillon
hands. 1t runs from Toledo to Bowerstan
1t ia asserted that under Its new control
viii be extended TO Wheeling, and brauc
tuilt to Clcvealc.